WOW-Day in the Action Week in 2004

During the Action Week of the German Waldorf schools in the autumn of 2004, 119 Waldorf schools had a WOW Day - thousands of pupils organised activities and the money they raised went to help children in Africa.

In Stuttgart the Waldorf teacher Lorna Davis, who helped found the Inkanyezi School in South Africa was handed a symbolic cheque for 24,000 Euros. The donations from many schools came in later and the total raised was 360,000 Euros!

Around 90 schools managed to raise over 1,000 Euros and the sponsored run at the Trier Waldorf School raised 20,000 Euros!

We want to heartily thank all the pupils, teachers and parents who helped in this unique event.

Up to now we have been able to help with 267,000 Euros:

2005 with 89.050 €  |  2006 with 71.359 €  |  2007 with 52.896 €  |  2008 with 29.412 €  |  2009 with 24.104 €.

For example:
91.500 € for the Centre for Creative Education in Cape Town to help train many teachers for township kindergartens (at present there are 100 women in training).
25.500 € for the Waldorf school in Freetown (Sierra Leone), which finally with this help could buy an own plot and building.
18.500 € for the Waldorf school in Dar es Salaam (Tansania), which then could buy a school bus and send their teachers to the regular training modules in Nairobi (Kenia).
7.000 € for the Waldorfschule Dassenberg (60km north of Cape Town). The school is attended by around 100 children from poor families. The 7.000 Euro were our contribution towards a BMZ financed project to build the school a much needed kindergarten.

Where we could help

Ethiopia
Hawzien, WS – 900 €

Kenia
KEN, Nairobi, WS Mbagathi – 9.513 €

Namibia
NAM, Windhoek, WS – 12.000 €
NAM, Windhoek, Kg Soutere – 9.360 €

Sierra Leone
Freetown, WS – 25.255 €

Tansania
Dar es Salaam, WS – 18.501 €

Uganda
Ft. Portal, Kg-Initiative – 1.200 €

South Africa
Kapstadt, Centre for Creative Education – 91.500 €
Mentoring – 9.000 €
Bursaries – 8.400 €
Dassenberg, WS – 7.075 €
Fishhoek, WS Imhoff – 5.000 €
Gaia, Kg – 15.000 €
Hermanus, WS – 2.230 €
Khayelitsha, WS Zenzeleni – 3.260 €
Nompumelelo, Kg – 803 €
Soweto, WS Sikhulise – 7.820 €